More thinking about hexes

My wife sometimes says things that go straight to the heart of a problem ... and when she saw the hex images I used on my recent blog post, she pointed out something that I'd missed ... that the orientation of the big hex and the smaller hexes was different and that this did not make sense!

I therefore looked at whether it was possible to orient the two so that they were the same, and the result looked like this:

The large hex contains thirty-one smaller hexes and six half-hexes.

For comparison with the map I used in my previous blog post, I then reproduced the terrain map for a battle (The evacuation of Abou Nasir) that I fought on my Portable Wargame warboard as part of my MORE TROUBLE IN ZUBIA mini-campaign. The terrain for the battle looked like this:

On the strategic map, the hex containing the village of Abou Nasir would look like this:

I think that this is a better solution than the one outlined in my previous blog post.